nessee on March 11th, 1890, and approved March 13th, 1890, entitled "An Act to provide more stringent regulations for securing the purity of elections in this State, and applicable to Counties having a population of seventy thousand (70,000) inhabitants and over, computed by the Federal Census of 1880, or which may hereafter have that number, or over that number of inhabitants computed by any subsequent Federal Census, and to cities having a population of nine thousand (9,000) inhabitants, or over, computed by the Federal Census of 1880, or which may hereafter have that, or over that number of inhabitants, computed by any subAmendment. sequent Federal Census," be amended so as to provide that said Act be applicable to all counties in Tennessee having, according to the Federal Census of 1890, or which may hereafter have, by any subsequent Federal Census, a population of fifty thousand (50,000) inhabitants, or over that number, and to towns, cities and civil districts having a population of twenty-five hundred (2,500) inhabitants or over computed by the Federal Census of 1890, or which may hereafter have that number, or over that number, by any subsequent Federal Census. Repeal. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed, and that this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed March 23, 1897. JOHN THOMPSON, Speaker of the Senate. MORGAN C. FITZPATRICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Approved March 24, 1897. ROBT. L. TAYLOR, Governor. CHAPTER 18. [SENATE BILL NO. 410.] AN ACT to prohibit the use of funds belonging to corporations for electioneering, political or campaign purposes, and to punish all representatives of corporations who so use or consent to the use of corporate funds for this purpose. Unlawful use of corporate funds. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for the executive officers or other representatives of any corporation doing business within this State, to use any of the funds, moneys or credits of the corporation for the purpose of aiding either in the election or defeat of ay candidate for office, national, State, county or municipal, or for the purpose of aiding in the success or defeat of any proposition submitted to a vote of the people, or in auy way contributing to the campaign fund of any political party, for any purpose whatever. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That every executive Penalty. officer, agent, or other representative of any corporation, doing business within this State, who shall knowingly consent to, approve, or aid in the use of the fund of a corporation, for any of the purposes mentioned in Section 1, of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the county jail or work house not less than two nor more than six months. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the grand juries of this State be given inquisitorial powers over all violations of this Act, and that the Circuit and Criminal Court Judges of this State be required to give this matter specially in charge to the grand jury at each term of their courts. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. CHAPTER 19. [SENATE BILL NO. 221.] AN ACT to provide for the regulation of fraternal beneficiary societies incorporated and doing business in this State, whether chartered under the laws of this State or under the laws of other States, for the purpose of furnishing life, indemnity or pecuniary benefits to beneficiaries of deceased members, and to provide for the supervision and control of such societies in this State, and to repeal all laws now existing which conflict herewith. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That every incorporated association or society doing business in this State on the lodge system with ritual form of work and representative form of government for the purpose of making provisions for the payment of death benefits, formed and organized for the sole benefit of its members, and their beneficiaries, and not for profit, be, and the same is hereby declared to Fraternal ben- be a "fraternal beneficiary society or association," and any incorporated association or society, not doing business on the lodge system with ritualistic form of work, which shall show to the satisfaction of the insurance commissioners that its business is so conducted as to make it a fraternal beneficiary society or association within the true meaning of this Act, shall be permitted to do business in this State upon compliance with the provisions of this Act. eficiary societies, what are. Funds, how derived. To make annual reports.' Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the fund from which the payment of benefits, as provided for in Section 1 of this Act, shall be made, and the fund from which the expenses of said association shall be defrayed, shall be derived from assessments or dues collected from its members. Such societies or associations shall be governed by this Act, and shall be exempt from the provisions of all insurance laws of this State, and no law hereafter passed shall apply to said societies unless it be expressly designated therein. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That such societies or associations doing business in this State, shall on or before the first day of March of each year, make and file with the insurance commissioner of this State, a report of its affairs and operations during the year ending on the 31st day of December immediately preceding, together with a copy of its constitution and laws then in force, which annual report shall be in lieu of all other reports required by any other law. Such report shall be on blanks provided by the insurance commissioner, and shall be verified under oath by the duly authorized officer or officers of such society or association, and shall be published, or the substance thereof, in the annual report of the insurance commissioner, under a separate head, entitled, "Fraternal Beneficiary Societies," and for the filing of said report said society or association shall pay a fee of ten ($10.00) dollars. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That any such societies Meeting of suincorporated and organized under the laws of this State preme body. may provide for the meeting of its supreme legislature, or governing body in any other State, province or territory, wherein said society shall have subordinate lodges, and all business that has been heretofore, or may hereafter be transacted at such meetings, shall be as valid in all respects, as if such meetings were held within this State; Provided, however, that the principal business office of such society shall always be kept within this State and never removed therefrom. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That any such fraternal Reciprocity. beneficiary society as is defined by this Act, organized and doing business under the laws of another State, district, province or territory, may be admitted to transact business in this State upon the same conditions as are prescribed by the laws of such State for the admission of like societies or associations, organized under the laws of this State, to do business in such State, district, province or territory. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall be in force from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it. Passed April 10, 1897. JOHN THOMPSON, Speaker of the Senate. MORGAN C. FITZPATRICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Approved April 30, 1897. ROBT. L. TAYLOR, Governor. State and County not liable for costs. Exceptions. Witnesses living within five mues receive no pay. CHAPTER 20. [HOUSE BILL NO. 13.] AN ACT to regulate and restrict the payment of costs and fees in criminal prosecutions. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That neither the State of Tennesse nor any county thereof shall pay or be liable in any criminal prosecution for any costs or fees hereafter accruing, except in the following classes of cases: 1. Cases of homicide, rape, robbery, burglary, arson, embezzlement, incest or bigamy, where the prosecution has proceeded to a verdict in the circuit or criminal court. 2. Cases under the small offense law where the defendant has submitted before a Justice of the Peace and been sent to the work house; and, 3. All cases where the defendant has been convicted in a court of record and the execution issued upon the judgment against the defendant has been returned nulla bona; Provided, that neither the State of Tennessee, nor any county thereof shall be liable for, or pay any costs in any criminal case, where security has been accepted by the officer taking the security, and an execution, afterwards returned nulla bona, as to the defendant and his securities; Provided, that compensation for boarding prisoners, expenses of keeping and boarding juries, compensation of jurors, costs of transcripts in cases taken to the Supreme Court by appeal or writ of error, mileage and legal fees for removing or conveying criminals and prisoners from one county to another, or one jail to another, and compensation and milea witnesses for the State duly subpoenaed and required 19 attend before any court, grand jury or magistrate in a county other than that of their residence and more than five miles from such residence, and where any witness for the State shall be confined in jail to await the trial in which he is to testify, shall be paid in all cases as heretofore. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That neither the State of Tennessee nor any county thereof shall pay or be liable in any criminal case or prosecution for the fees, costs or mileage which may hereafter accrue in favor of any witness who shall, at the time of his attendance as |